First Capital Plus supports four students
First Capital Plus, an indigenous savings and loans company has supported four tertiary students with a total of $7,000 to pursue various academic programmes as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme.
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Naa Anyekah Sowah, a first year medical student at the University of Ghana Medical School, received $2,500 and will receive financial support every year until she completes medical school.
The three others also received $1,500 each from First Capital to attend a medical exchange programme outside the country.
The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr John Kofi Mensah, used the occasion to assure their customers and stakeholders that despite the company’s phenomenal growth rates, “we will not rest on our oars, but we will continue to evolve and innovate in our quest to consistently offer the best of customer-centric solutions.”
He also admonished the medical students to extend that spirit of philanthropy towards their patients when they graduate to become medical doctors.
The Head of Marketing and Corporate Affairs of the company, Nana Yaw Kesse, said CSR was a critical element of their corporate mandate due to their deep-seated commitment for stakeholder improvement in line with our positioning of “seeing lives”.
“We therefore believe that CSR is an investment and not expenditure since CSR should yield returns in the form of improved societal well-being,” he said at the presentation ceremony in Accra.
According to him, over the years, the company has embarked on various societal impacting activities like yearly blood donation exercises, support for the Korle-Bu Children’s award amongst others.
They are also devoted to deepening their commitment to CSR and have developed a comprehensive CSR document dubbed FCP impact with the key objective of deepening our CSR engagements.
He added, “a few of the initiatives include the development of an emergency response fund aimed at making the company more agile at responding to medical emergencies and appeal for funds on humanitarian grounds.”
The company he also said was focused on alleviating poverty amongst women and children in deprived communities and has instituted a CSR policy in that regard.
By Jessica Acheampong/Daily Graphic/Ghana